This is a shame because going back to points earlier raised about doing a lot of sitting, the game does get boring quite quickly especially if you are one to play games in extensive sessions at a time. The dialogue throughout can sometimes be a bit cheesy but all the characters you meet are well scripted and where interaction with other characters is concerned, there is never a dull moment. It’s nice to be able to report that (assuming your Kinect is properly set up and your playing environment is correct) the controls for Gabriel are satisfactory and the camera tracking is up to scratch.īeing based in Albion (what old England was formerly known as) it is nice to have a script that has been created by an English studio with English people populating it and not being stereotypical or the bad guys.
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It’s somewhat of a new direction for the series as previous titles have been third person but thankfully this on-rails approach makes things a lot easier rather than trying to control your hero with your hands.
Textures are sometimes a little slow to load but apart from that the characters and the world alike both look great.īeing a Kinect game, The Journey takes place in the first person in order to make the most of the controls and avoid any faffy camera angles. The world in which you travel is one that you’d expect from a Fable title it’s not hyper-realistic yet the graphics and detail of your surrounding environment is very pleasing and suits the game perfectly. He encounters Theresa, a seer from the older games, early on and she gives him a pair of gauntlets that allow him to cast magic and other spells. The story surrounding this Fable outing isn’t one that can really be mumbled about as it is actually one that is genuinely interesting and Gabriel fills the naïve young lead role perfectly as it transpires that he is being bestowed with magical powers and great responsibility. The young traveller gets separated from his fellow traders and is forced to travel alone in order to catch them up further down the road which is a long one. All of this is part of the story that you follow, a tale of a boy and his horse Gabriel and Seren. The great RPG titles of old have been swapped for a sit-down experience of arm flailing in order to cast spells, control your horse and interact with the world around you. Obviously games that don't use motion control have you sitting to play them but we expect Kinect games to be more interactive that just sitting and using our arms. For those with minimal padding on their Gluteus Maximus, I suggest you get a comfy chair or sit on a cushion because you may get a little sore.
You sit, you move your arms for a while and remain seated the entire time. Well the above statement ‘giving your arms a workout’ couldn’t be truer in this instance as you will use your arms. But will it just make fans impatient and want a follow up to Fable 3 that little bit more or will it be enough to make them wait patiently for the inevitable fourth title?
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Billed as a full standalone Fable game that depends wholly on Kinect functionality, this has been built up to be the most interactive Fable title yet. ‘With what?’ you may be wondering and it is none other than a fully-fledged Fable game for Kinect Fable: The Journey. Microsoft, along with their exclusive partners Lionhead Studios, have launched their latest assault on Kinect owners out there and intend to give them a reason to dust off their cameras and give their arms a good workout. That isn’t stopping either of Nintendo’s rivals however as they are still backing their peripherals and shipping first and third (mainly the latter) party titles to pad out their motion control catalogues.
That has not been the case and it has since transpired that the glistening future both giants envisaged where everything would be controlled by motion turned out to be nothing more than a mirage and a fad that Nintendo had already exploited and milked. 2010 was the year where Microsoft and Sony suddenly thought they must copy the Wii in their own unique ways as motion control was the way forward for the industry. It’s been a long and not altogether smooth road that Kinect has travelled since it was released two years ago.
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